Norwich 5 - Wolves 2

Ten-man Wolves surrendered top spot to Birmingham after they were blown away by a Leroy Lita hat-trick at Norwich.

Goalkeeper Carl Ikeme had already put through his own net for Wolves before the Lita show began, sandwiched either side of Neill Collins and Sylvan Ebanks-Blake strikes for Wolves.

Richard Stearman was sent off for Wolves just before Lita's third of the evening, with Lee Croft putting the finishing touches on an emphatic win for the Canaries.

Ikeme inadvertedly opening the scoring from Sammy Clingan's free kick with 25 minutes gone and Wolves were really up against it when Lita drilled to the goalkeeper's right in the 38th minute.

Collins gave Mick McCarthy's side hope when he headed home Carlos Edwards' corner two minutes later, only for Lita to restore the two-goal cushion by lobbing Ikeme 12 minutes after the break.

Wolves gave themselves another glimmer of hope through Ebanks-Blake in the 65th minute.

He dusted himself off from a foul in the area by Wesley Hoolahan to fire past David Marshall in the Norwich goal.

Then it all went very wrong for the visitors. Less than two minutes later, Stearman was shown the red card when, having already been booked for foul on Lita, he clattered into the on-loan Reading forward.

From the subsequent Clingan free-kick, Lita nodded in for his hat-trick.

Any thoughts of a comeback were ended in the 75th minute.

Lita rattled the post with a shot in the penalty area, with the rebound falling to Croft, who drilled the ball in on his 100th appearance for the Canaries.